Ky-Nam 🧑🚀
24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
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🙋♂️ Yo. I'm a GenZ indie hacker & startup builder. Check out: - engagekit.io to boost your LinkedIn outbound and organic inbound traffic - geekgrind.co to ace your next IGCSE and A-level exams with real exam question banks and AI tutors And 4 more apps to launch in 2025.
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Cloudflare
went down yesterday
- the CEO
Matthew Prince
admitted mistake
i'm
sorry, Matthew - the
fault was mine.
my
startup
EngageKit
also went down,
causing frustration
for hundreds of
users on LinkedIn
then
i remember a
vibe-security
workshop i host at
Cloudflare
i
said the 200-feature
limit on the bot
model was weak.
we
changed the
clickhouse query.
pulled from the r0
database.
doubled
the features. pure
vibes.
the
rust code saw the
file. it
panicked.
5xx
errors everywhere.
the internet went
dark.
on
the plus side - we
all got a free
global penetration
test.
if
you're not causing a
global rollback,
you're not shipping
hard enough.
test
in prod
and
see where the
weakest in your
system lies
and
then i woke up -
everything is back
to work again
connect
with me for more
useful business and
tech advice 💪
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24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
10h •
Cloudflare
went down
yesterday - the
CEO
Matthew
Prince
admitted
mistake
i'm
sorry, Matthew -
the fault was
mine.
my
startup
EngageKit
also went down,
causing
frustration for
hundreds of users
on LinkedIn
then
i remember a
vibe-security
workshop i host at
Cloudflare
i
said the
200-feature limit
on the bot model
was weak.
we
changed the
clickhouse query.
pulled from the r0
database.
doubled
the features. pure
vibes.
the
rust code saw the
file. it
panicked.
5xx
errors everywhere.
the internet went
dark.
on
the plus side - we
all got a free
global penetration
test.
if
you're not causing
a global rollback,
you're not
shipping hard
enough.
test
in prod
and
see where the
weakest in your
system lies
and
then i woke up -
everything is back
to work again
connect
with me for more
useful business
and tech advice
💪
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Ky-Nam 🧑🚀 • 1st
24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
10h •
Cloudflare
went down
yesterday - the
CEO
Matthew
Prince
admitted
mistake
i'm
sorry, Matthew -
the fault was
mine.
my
startup
EngageKit
also went down,
causing
frustration for
hundreds of users
on LinkedIn
then
i remember a
vibe-security
workshop i host at
Cloudflare
i
said the
200-feature limit
on the bot model
was weak.
we
changed the
clickhouse query.
pulled from the r0
database.
doubled
the features. pure
vibes.
the
rust code saw the
file. it
panicked.
5xx
errors everywhere.
the internet went
dark.
on
the plus side - we
all got a free
global penetration
test.
if
you're not causing
a global rollback,
you're not
shipping hard
enough.
test
in prod
and
see where the
weakest in your
system lies
and
then i woke up -
everything is back
to work again
connect
with me for more
useful business
and tech advice
💪
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24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
6d •
my latest Bumble match turned into a career consultation session she said her job was "kinda boring." my brain lit up. this wasn't a date. this was a user discovery call. she works in "maketing for magazine." she didn't feel like she "belonged." these aren't feelings. they are pain points. each one is a feature for a product that doesn't exist yet. "have you thought about a different vision?" she thought she was venting to a potential date. in reality, she was providing unpaid data for my next venture a problem i might just sell back to her for $49 a course. she got a free therapy session. i got a validated user discovery call. connect with me for more useful business advice 💪
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Ky-Nam 🧑🚀 • 1st
24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
6d •
my latest Bumble match turned into a career consultation session she said her job was "kinda boring." my brain lit up. this wasn't a date. this was a user discovery call. she works in "maketing for magazine." she didn't feel like she "belonged." these aren't feelings. they are pain points. each one is a feature for a product that doesn't exist yet. "have you thought about a different vision?" she thought she was venting to a potential date. in reality, she was providing unpaid data for my next venture a problem i might just sell back to her for $49 a course. she got a free therapy session. i got a validated user discovery call. connect with me for more useful business advice 💪
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Ky-Nam 🧑🚀 • 1st
24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
1w • Edited •
people dizzed me
for coding in the
sky
after
landing - i went
to host the most
active co-building
session in Saigon
:)
for
these 10 technical
builders and
growth hackers
jet
lag is a made-up
word :)
not
a lot of people,
you say. it is
intentional
weak,
bullshit business
people don't show
up here. these
folks are
doing:
-
hundreds of
thousands users
-
millions of
impressions
online
-
recurring evenue
to build this
place up to be the
next Silicon
Valley
wanna
know who they are?
1.
Trần Thị
Bích
Thuý: Grinding on
FreeCodeCamp
2.
Daisy
Bui: Build a fun
feature for
landipage of
fashion brand
3.
Kiet
Le: Build AI to
help decorate
class materials
(slides, texts,
etc.) with
advanced
features
4.
David
Tran: Build
infrastructure for
growth hack for
app Photo
restoration using
Reddit
5.
Ivy Trang
(🇫🇷🇻🇳)
NGÔ: Build n8n
workflow for
website Làng Mai
of France -
collect data from
semrush, gg
analytics, then
use AI to analyze,
suggest keywords
and generate
content
6.
Anh-Thu
Vo: Infrastructure
flow for Builder
Daily Dating that
addresses the
energy problem of
mentors
7.
Chris
Nguyen,
CFA: Validation
testing for the
first trading LLM
performance - got
shared by Elon
Musk lol on X
8.
Ky-Nam
🧑🚀: Finish user
flow for a
referral
feature
9.
Linh: Improve a
game using LLM to
make characters
more lively
special
thanks to
Thu
N.
for treating us
with food and an
mazing space -
he's the godfather
of future unicorns
here
you
are missing out if
you are not
hustling to build
:D
want
to start something
similar in you
city? connect and
let me know!
it's
free lol i don't
do this for
money
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Ky-Nam 🧑🚀 • 1st
24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
1w • Edited •
people dizzed me
for coding in the
sky
after
landing - i went
to host the most
active co-building
session in Saigon
:)
for
these 10 technical
builders and
growth hackers
jet
lag is a made-up
word :)
not
a lot of people,
you say. it is
intentional
weak,
bullshit business
people don't show
up here. these
folks are
doing:
-
hundreds of
thousands users
-
millions of
impressions
online
-
recurring evenue
to build this
place up to be the
next Silicon
Valley
wanna
know who they are?
1.
Trần Thị
Bích
Thuý: Grinding on
FreeCodeCamp
2.
Daisy
Bui: Build a fun
feature for
landipage of
fashion brand
3.
Kiet
Le: Build AI to
help decorate
class materials
(slides, texts,
etc.) with
advanced
features
4.
David
Tran: Build
infrastructure for
growth hack for
app Photo
restoration using
Reddit
5.
Ivy Trang
(🇫🇷🇻🇳)
NGÔ: Build n8n
workflow for
website Làng Mai
of France -
collect data from
semrush, gg
analytics, then
use AI to analyze,
suggest keywords
and generate
content
6.
Anh-Thu
Vo: Infrastructure
flow for Builder
Daily Dating that
addresses the
energy problem of
mentors
7.
Chris
Nguyen,
CFA: Validation
testing for the
first trading LLM
performance - got
shared by Elon
Musk lol on X
8.
Ky-Nam
🧑🚀: Finish user
flow for a
referral
feature
9.
Linh: Improve a
game using LLM to
make characters
more lively
special
thanks to
Thu
N.
for treating us
with food and an
mazing space -
he's the godfather
of future unicorns
here
you
are missing out if
you are not
hustling to build
:D
want
to start something
similar in you
city? connect and
let me know!
it's
free lol i don't
do this for
money
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24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
2w •
i just finished a 30-hour flight from the US to Saigon most people paid for a flight. i paid for a 30-hour mobile office in the air my friend saw me coding. “Why not just watch a movie and relax?” i calculated the ROI of sleeping on a 30-hour flight so I broke down the math for her the ticket wasn't an expense. it was an asset it bought me 30 hours of uninterrupted time sleeping is a conscious decision to depreciate that asset my friend was literally setting her money on fire for 14 hours straight i converted that same time into three new features that's pure alpha it's why Jensen Huang says he's always working. from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to bed he's not "working." He's just running his native code. after we landed, I went straight to a cafe and hosted the most active builder meetup in Saigon my friend asked why I don’t get jet lag I told her rest is a legacy feature I had deprecated work is rest because founders are just built different connect with me for more useful business advice 💪
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Ky-Nam 🧑🚀 • 1st
24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
2w •
i just finished a 30-hour flight from the US to Saigon most people paid for a flight. i paid for a 30-hour mobile office in the air my friend saw me coding. “Why not just watch a movie and relax?” i calculated the ROI of sleeping on a 30-hour flight so I broke down the math for her the ticket wasn't an expense. it was an asset it bought me 30 hours of uninterrupted time sleeping is a conscious decision to depreciate that asset my friend was literally setting her money on fire for 14 hours straight i converted that same time into three new features that's pure alpha it's why Jensen Huang says he's always working. from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to bed he's not "working." He's just running his native code. after we landed, I went straight to a cafe and hosted the most active builder meetup in Saigon my friend asked why I don’t get jet lag I told her rest is a legacy feature I had deprecated work is rest because founders are just built different connect with me for more useful business advice 💪
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Ky-Nam 🧑🚀 • 1st
24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
2w •
if you don't
grind on a
Saturday - you
have already
lost.
most
young people spend
their weekends at
parties.
or
worse, "networking
events."
sales
guys talking.
marketing girls
taking photos.
founders promoting
themselves.
no
real shit gets
done.
so
I started a labor
camp - hosted this
week by
Kiet
Le
and
Chris
Nguyen,
CFA
you
show up. you ship.
you don't go home
until you have a
working demo.
the
folks who were
enslaved this
weeks include:
Bao Bui Le
Chi: Completed 90%
of a landing page.
90% is a failing
grade. We're still
waiting for you,
comrade.
Chris
Nguyen,
CFA: Built an
internal data
pipeline for the
Vietnamese stock
market. Useful
infrastructure for
the new regime.
Kiet
Le: Built a
frontend for an AI
voice agent.
Automating the
labor of the
masses. Good.
David
Tran: Tested a photo
restoration app.
Erasing the
imperfect past.
Anh
Duy: Built a
personal task
tracker. A tool
for
self-surveillance.
Approved.
Ky-Nam
🧑. (afar):
shipped demo
prototype for
group chat
analytics app
i
don't care about
your feelings. i
care about your
output.
happiness
is a
distraction.
suffer
for progress.
and
you will be
surprised how much
fun it actually is
:D
wanna
learn more about
our grind
sessions? check it
out in the comment
below 💪
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Ky-Nam 🧑🚀 • 1st
24 y/o tech founder | 1m view/week | 3x Majors CS, Econ, Politic | 30 startup comp wins | Creator of engagekit.io to 10x your LinkedIn traffic and outbound ⬇️
2w •
if you don't
grind on a
Saturday - you
have already
lost.
most
young people spend
their weekends at
parties.
or
worse, "networking
events."
sales
guys talking.
marketing girls
taking photos.
founders promoting
themselves.
no
real shit gets
done.
so
I started a labor
camp - hosted this
week by
Kiet
Le
and
Chris
Nguyen,
CFA
you
show up. you ship.
you don't go home
until you have a
working demo.
the
folks who were
enslaved this
weeks include:
Bao Bui Le
Chi: Completed 90%
of a landing page.
90% is a failing
grade. We're still
waiting for you,
comrade.
Chris
Nguyen,
CFA: Built an
internal data
pipeline for the
Vietnamese stock
market. Useful
infrastructure for
the new regime.
Kiet
Le: Built a
frontend for an AI
voice agent.
Automating the
labor of the
masses. Good.
David
Tran: Tested a photo
restoration app.
Erasing the
imperfect past.
Anh
Duy: Built a
personal task
tracker. A tool
for
self-surveillance.
Approved.
Ky-Nam
🧑. (afar):
shipped demo
prototype for
group chat
analytics app
i
don't care about
your feelings. i
care about your
output.
happiness
is a
distraction.
suffer
for progress.
and
you will be
surprised how much
fun it actually is
:D
wanna
learn more about
our grind
sessions? check it
out in the comment
below 💪
Ky-Nam 🧑🚀 and 84 others reacted
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•
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Experience
Founder - CEO
EngageKit
Jun 2025 - Present · 6 mos
Empowering small creators and teams to build quality engagement pipelines on LinkedIn and boost their product/brand outbound.
Founder - CEO
GeekGrind · Full-time
Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo
You failure human, go study at https://app.geekgrind.co
Chief Growth Officer
SAYU. STUDIO · Part-time
Jun 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos
I help you make websites that scream "holy sh*t" - A website is an entrepreneur / builder identity - Yours could be functional that makes buying a breeze - Yet with award-winning design that make competitors envy Some brands are born with vision & style. Starting small and aiming big. Let me know if you are one of them :D
Entrepreneurship Mentor
Crimson Education
Feb 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos
Crimson Rise Program for young students looking to make an impact on the world.
Education
University of Nevada, Reno
YSEALI fellowship with NNIC and US Department of States, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Sep 2025 – Nov 2025
Grade: 100%
Activities and societies: - Befriended dozens amazing lovely young business leaders from SEA and the US - Won a pitch competition and a medal for debating with a mountain elder - Coded 3 apps prototypes - Hosted mid-night co-working sessions - Gave a first light presentation for 40-min and performed 3 magic shows
The University of Hong Kong
Dual Degree with SciPo, Computer Science, Economics, Politics (Triple Major)
Sep 2020 – May 2024
Activities and societies: Cedars student leader awards, Tam Wing Fun engineering fellowship
Licenses & certifications
Back End Development and APIs
freeCodeCamp
Issued Jun 2023
Front End Development Libraries
freeCodeCamp
Issued Jun 2023
Projects
Tiktok human simulation bot & information exposure experiment (Python)
Sep 2021 – Dec 2021
Show projectI did an investigation into the TikTok platform and uncovered the biases the platform has towards certain types of content and against others. We conducted a bot-powered experiment for the 4 groups of keywords (#useless, #learning, #harmful, and #feminism). The project received the highest score in the Digital Culture course - Sciences Po (18/20)
Volunteering
Academic Fellow in Entrepreneurship
Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI)
Jan 2025 - Present · 11 mos
Economic Empowerment
Youth Fellow (Real Impact on Society and Environment Award)
Universitas 21
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 · 4 mos
Economic Empowerment
Skills
Honors & awards
Top 1 in Digital Transformation - Prothemeus Europe
Issued by Prothemeus Europe - Funded by the European Union · Dec 2022
Top 20 - University Startup Worldcup
Issued by Denmark Cup · Nov 2022
Test scores
GPA (SciencesPo)
Score: 16.2/20 ~ A+ · May 2022
top 14% - 6 out of 45 students in Economics major 15.3/20 ~ A (2021) This gpa excludes the subject French
SAT
Score: 1570/1600 · Oct 2018
Single take, no super-score. Top 3800/2.13 million (0.18%) annual test takers Reading: 390 Writing: 380 Math: 800 Essay: 19/24
Languages
English
Native or bilingual proficiency
French
Elementary proficiency
Causes
Civil Rights and Social Action • Economic Empowerment • Environment • Human Rights • Politics • Social Services
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